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Friday, May 15, 2009

I created this postcard collage to highlight the elements of a Mason Bros. & Co. postcard (Boston, Mass.) with the following inscription explaining the image -- Lynn, Mass., Gold Fish Pond, Lafayette Park. The back of the card shows a postmark dated 16 June 1913 in Lynn, Mass. The enlargement of the stamp is the actual one-cent stamp from this 1913 greeting. The card is addressed to Miss Frances Thom-- in Gardiner, Me RFD 12 from your dear friend Margaret. The brief message says, "Your card received am pleased you are enjoying your self. hope you will continue doing so. Please answer soon."

The children in the photo on the bottom left are siblings, Robert and Roberta Henry (my Mom), who are actually sitting at the edge of the same Gold Fish Pond. Lafayette Park was in their neighborhood when they were small children in the 1930s before coming to Texas to live with their paternal grandparents.

What a great hobbie for you and your mom to enjoy together. You see a goodly number of my postcards are ones I have found in My mom home after she moved, so even though we didn't do it together knowingly, we collected.I love your collage. Are you a mixed media artist?

MUSTON :: Possible and / or Probable Ancestors

* The following are believed to be ancestral surnames of Charles G. Muston (1882-1915) who died in Texas and is believed to have been born there
* Allard
* Burt
* Griggs
* Jordan
* King
* Muston
* Newsome
* Olive

NETTLES :: Possible and / or Probable Ancestors

* The following are believed to be ancestral surnames of Joseph Helidorah Nettles (1832-1890) who was born in Alabama and died in Texas
* Carter
* Connor?
* Ditto?
* Dunaway?
* Eastern?
* Fulton
* Nettles
* Saunders?
* West

POUNDERS :: Possible and / or Probable Ancestors

* The following are believed to be ancestral surnames of Jacob Edmund Forrest Pounders (1902-1957) who was born and died in Texas
* CAIN :: Isaac Cosby Cain is POSSIBLY father of Mary Susan Pounders nee [Cain]
* Holcomb
* Holland
* Pounders
* Quinn

SHARP :: Possible and / or Probable Ancestors

* The following are believed to be ancestral surnames of Samuel Houston Sharp (1839-1885) who was born and died in Texas
* Daniel
* GILL :: earliest is William GILL who died in 1804 in Kentucky
* Griggs
* PAYNE :: earliest is Rhoda (PAYNE) Roberts who died after 1805
* ROBERTS :: earliest is George ROBERTS who died ca. 1773 in Virginia
* SHARP :: earliest is John M. SHARP who presumably died before 1846 in Texas